Jordan Madge – Where Flowers Grow

Where Flowers Grow is about the representation of place through photographic narrative. It is an attempt to explore the social and physical landscape of a small mining town in Northern New South Wales, Australia which was once at the heart of the black opal mining industry. After a boom for the elusive black opal, the town ran dry and began to sell itself as a tourist town full of eccentrics, old mining relics and a small portions of modern day black opal miners.